The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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The definitive list of what will happen in 2008

dfdb is proud to expand to politics and music and culture and current events this year.

  • Despite the best efforts of America’s women, Obama will become president of the United States and, by proxy, the world. His vice president? Some white person nobody cares about.
  • The Funnelwhich will get a quantity of updates that is a multiple of three. Maybe.
  • New Amsterdam will get canceled even though it’s a damn good show.
  • Google’s suite of office software will continue to suck. TRUE
  • Apple will learn how to make iPod nanos not look like the fat chick nobody likes. Also, gray? Seriously? Gray’s going away.
  • People will continue to enjoy pornography in novel and exciting new ways despite the best efforts a new production company, n-girls + n-1 cups.
  • foobar 0.9.5.2 will be released to much “fanfare.”
  • Franz Ferdinand and The Fratellis will release their new albums. Somebody will make yet another postmortem album for Elliot Smith.
  • There will be no new Windows OS release because most scientists agree such an event would cause a permanent rip in the very fabric of Bill Gates’ pants. And nobody wants to see his butt.
  • That’s right, I’m making this public: Bill Gates goes commando on a daily basis. ♫ Thonnnng. ♫
  • House will get renewed despite crappier writing and even crappier medicine.
  • The next version of Mac OS X will contain, let’s say, Firewire support. And better icons than those in Leopard. And a TCP/IP Stack®.
  • People will continue to not care about any of the Linux operating systems.
[(2008 April 1) .]

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